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In my mind, a performance review is part of a set of inter-related documents. In practices we have ‘offers of employment’.‘Offers of employment’ mention and lead to ’employment contracts’.‘Employment contracts’ mention and connect to ‘job descriptions’.‘Job descriptions’ mention and match […]

GDPR – the new ‘General Data Protection Regulation’ from the EU. The EU has new legislation that comes into effect on May 25 (yes few days time) that is targeting the international social media companies, but is impacting on all […]

How many of us would know if a staff member with Medicare lookup ability was compromised by a Criminal gang?? I reckon that I have access to a heap of systems where Medicare lookups via HPOS is available to ALL […]

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner last week released a report about their recent review of Privacy Policies in Australian GP practices. The report is here >> https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy-law/assessments/general-practice-clinics-app-1-privacy-policy-assessment Let’s look at the summary Part 2 — Summary statistics regarding […]

Let me start by asking ‘why good computer security is important to clinics?’ We all know that the security of patient health records is very important under the Federal Privacy Act. We get this drummed home at every conference and […]

Copy of feedback sent to DSSfeedback@dss.gov.au This is another really terrible referral process >> https://www.myagedcare.gov.au/referral Already having Blue Care reject paper referrals, and will only accept this Jurassic electronic submission where all details of client and health professional need […]

KPIs are things that your accountant probably speaks about. KPI stands for Key Performance Indicator. Follows is a list of KPIs that I think are useful in a General Practice Setting. KPIs for Doctors One of the large corporates refers […]

Following the announcement yesterday from Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley about the scrapping of the proposed 10 minute minimum for Level B consultations:- I had a drink or two to celebrate we now know that this battle was won, but […]

Background:- with the introduction of the 10 minute minimum for Level B consults effective from Monday of next week (19 January 2015), and trying to get my head around how we can sustain practice income. I’m on the phone to […]